我们研究了与中央服务器和多个客户的联合学习多臂强盗设置中最佳手臂识别的问题。每个客户都与多臂强盗相关联，其中每个手臂在具有未知均值和已知方差的高斯分布之后，每个手臂都能产生{\ em I.i.d。} \奖励。假定所有客户的武器集相同。我们定义了两个最佳手臂的概念 - 本地和全球。客户的当地最好的手臂是客户本地手臂中最大的手臂，而全球最佳手臂是所有客户平均平均值最大的手臂。我们假设每个客户只能从当地的手臂上观察奖励，从而估计其当地最好的手臂。客户在上行链路上与中央服务器进行通信，该上行链路需要每个上行链路的使用费用为$ C \ ge0 $单位。在服务器上估算了全球最佳手臂。目的是确定当地最佳武器和全球最佳臂，总成本最少，定义为所有客户的ARM选择总数和总通信成本的总和，但在错误概率上取决于上限。我们提出了一种基于连续消除的新型算法{\ sc fedelim}，仅在指数时间步骤中进行通信，并获得高概率依赖性实例依赖性上限，以其总成本。我们论文的关键要点是，对于任何$ c \ geq 0 $，错误概率和错误概率足够小，{\ sc fedelim}下的ARM选择总数（分别为\ the总费用）最多为〜$ 2 $（reves 。〜 $ 3 $）乘以其在每个时间步骤中通信的变体下的ARM选择总数的最大总数。此外，我们证明后者在期望最高的恒定因素方面是最佳的，从而证明{\ sc fedelim}中的通信几乎是无成本的。我们从数值验证{\ sc fedelim}的功效。

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has attracted considerable attention as a gradient-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method. Since the introduction of DARTS, there has been little work done on adapting the action space based on state-of-art architecture design principles for CNNs. In this work, we aim to address this gap by incrementally augmenting the DARTS search space with micro-design changes inspired by ConvNeXt and studying the trade-off between accuracy, evaluation layer count, and computational cost. To this end, we introduce the Pseudo-Inverted Bottleneck conv block intending to reduce the computational footprint of the inverted bottleneck block proposed in ConvNeXt. Our proposed architecture is much less sensitive to evaluation layer count and outperforms a DARTS network with similar size significantly, at layer counts as small as 2. Furthermore, with less layers, not only does it achieve higher accuracy with lower GMACs and parameter count, GradCAM comparisons show that our network is able to better detect distinctive features of target objects compared to DARTS.

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is an adversarial search paradigm that first found prominence with its success in the domain of computer Go. Early theoretical work established the game-theoretic soundness and convergence bounds for Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees (UCT), the most popular instantiation of MCTS; however, there remain notable gaps in our understanding of how UCT behaves in practice. In this work, we address one such gap by considering the question of whether UCT can exhibit lookahead pathology -- a paradoxical phenomenon first observed in Minimax search where greater search effort leads to worse decision-making. We introduce a novel family of synthetic games that offer rich modeling possibilities while remaining amenable to mathematical analysis. Our theoretical and experimental results suggest that UCT is indeed susceptible to pathological behavior in a range of games drawn from this family.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its data-centric branch of machine learning (ML) have greatly evolved over the last few decades. However, as AI is used increasingly in real world use cases, the importance of the interpretability of and accessibility to AI systems have become major research areas. The lack of interpretability of ML based systems is a major hindrance to widespread adoption of these powerful algorithms. This is due to many reasons including ethical and regulatory concerns, which have resulted in poorer adoption of ML in some areas. The recent past has seen a surge in research on interpretable ML. Generally, designing a ML system requires good domain understanding combined with expert knowledge. New techniques are emerging to improve ML accessibility through automated model design. This paper provides a review of the work done to improve interpretability and accessibility of machine learning in the context of global problems while also being relevant to developing countries. We review work under multiple levels of interpretability including scientific and mathematical interpretation, statistical interpretation and partial semantic interpretation. This review includes applications in three areas, namely food processing, agriculture and health.

Several studies have been reported in the literature about SN P system and its variants. Often, the results provide universality of various variants and the classes of languages that these variants generate and recognize. The state of SN P system is its configuration. We refer to our previous result on reachability of configuration as the {\it Fundamental state equation for SN P system.} This paper provides a preliminary investigation on the behavioral and structural properties of SN P system without delay that depend primarily to this fundamental state equation. Also, we introduce the idea of configuration graph $CG_{\Pi}$ of an SN P system $\Pi$ without delay to characterize behavioral properties of $\Pi$ with respect to $CG_{\Pi}.$ The matrix $M_{\Pi}$ of an SN P system $\Pi$ without delay is used to characterize structural properties of $\Pi.$

In the 2010, matrix representation of SN P system without delay was presented while in the case of SN P systems with delay, matrix representation was suggested in the 2017. These representations brought about series of simulation of SN P systems using computer software and hardware technology. In this work, we revisit these representation and provide some observations on the behavior of the computations of SN P systems. The concept of reachability of configuration is considered in both SN P systems with and without delays. A better computation of next configuration is proposed in the case of SN P system with delay.

Explainability has been widely stated as a cornerstone of the responsible and trustworthy use of machine learning models. With the ubiquitous use of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models expanding to risk-sensitive and safety-critical domains, many methods have been proposed to explain the decisions of these models. Recent years have also seen concerted efforts that have shown how such explanations can be distorted (attacked) by minor input perturbations. While there have been many surveys that review explainability methods themselves, there has been no effort hitherto to assimilate the different methods and metrics proposed to study the robustness of explanations of DNN models. In this work, we present a comprehensive survey of methods that study, understand, attack, and defend explanations of DNN models. We also present a detailed review of different metrics used to evaluate explanation methods, as well as describe attributional attack and defense methods. We conclude with lessons and take-aways for the community towards ensuring robust explanations of DNN model predictions.

To analyze this characteristic of vulnerability, we developed an automated deep learning method for detecting microvessels in intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) images. A total of 8,403 IVOCT image frames from 85 lesions and 37 normal segments were analyzed. Manual annotation was done using a dedicated software (OCTOPUS) previously developed by our group. Data augmentation in the polar (r,{\theta}) domain was applied to raw IVOCT images to ensure that microvessels appear at all possible angles. Pre-processing methods included guidewire/shadow detection, lumen segmentation, pixel shifting, and noise reduction. DeepLab v3+ was used to segment microvessel candidates. A bounding box on each candidate was classified as either microvessel or non-microvessel using a shallow convolutional neural network. For better classification, we used data augmentation (i.e., angle rotation) on bounding boxes with a microvessel during network training. Data augmentation and pre-processing steps improved microvessel segmentation performance significantly, yielding a method with Dice of 0.71+/-0.10 and pixel-wise sensitivity/specificity of 87.7+/-6.6%/99.8+/-0.1%. The network for classifying microvessels from candidates performed exceptionally well, with sensitivity of 99.5+/-0.3%, specificity of 98.8+/-1.0%, and accuracy of 99.1+/-0.5%. The classification step eliminated the majority of residual false positives, and the Dice coefficient increased from 0.71 to 0.73. In addition, our method produced 698 image frames with microvessels present, compared to 730 from manual analysis, representing a 4.4% difference. When compared to the manual method, the automated method improved microvessel continuity, implying improved segmentation performance. The method will be useful for research purposes as well as potential future treatment planning.

成像表明临床前和人类肿瘤是异质性的，即单个肿瘤可以表现出多个区域，在正常发育过程中均表现出不同的行为，也可以反应治疗。在对照组肿瘤中观察到的大变化可能会掩盖由于归因于变化原因的歧义而导致的显着治疗作用的检测。由于实验设计的局限性，而不是由于治疗衰竭，这可能会阻碍有效疗法的发展。描述了对成像信号中生物变异和异质性进行建模的改进方法。具体而言，线性泊松建模（LPM）在放疗前和72小时之前评估了两种结直肠癌的异种移植模型，在放疗前和72小时后评估了明显的扩散效率（ADC）的变化。使用基本ADC分布参数的常规t检验分析将测量变化的统计显着性与可实现的变化的统计显着性进行了比较。当LPM应用于治疗的肿瘤时，LPM检测到了高度显着的变化。与常规方法相比，所有肿瘤的分析对于所有肿瘤都很重要，相当于4倍的增益（即等同于样本量大16倍）。相比之下，只有使用t检验在队列水平上检测到极大的变化，从而限制了其在个性化医学中的潜在用途，并增加了测试过程中所需的动物数量。此外，LPM使每个异种移植模型估计响应和非反应组织的相对体积。对处理过的异种移植物的剩余分析提供了质量控制并确定了潜在的异常值，从而提高了对临床相关样本量的LPM数据的信心。

ICECUBE是一种用于检测1 GEV和1 PEV之间大气和天体中微子的光学传感器的立方公斤阵列，该阵列已部署1.45 km至2.45 km的南极的冰盖表面以下1.45 km至2.45 km。来自ICE探测器的事件的分类和重建在ICeCube数据分析中起着核心作用。重建和分类事件是一个挑战，这是由于探测器的几何形状，不均匀的散射和冰中光的吸收，并且低于100 GEV的光，每个事件产生的信号光子数量相对较少。为了应对这一挑战，可以将ICECUBE事件表示为点云图形，并将图形神经网络（GNN）作为分类和重建方法。 GNN能够将中微子事件与宇宙射线背景区分开，对不同的中微子事件类型进行分类，并重建沉积的能量，方向和相互作用顶点。基于仿真，我们提供了1-100 GEV能量范围的比较与当前ICECUBE分析中使用的当前最新最大似然技术，包括已知系统不确定性的影响。对于中微子事件分类，与当前的IceCube方法相比，GNN以固定的假阳性速率（FPR）提高了信号效率的18％。另外，GNN在固定信号效率下将FPR的降低超过8（低于半百分比）。对于能源，方向和相互作用顶点的重建，与当前最大似然技术相比，分辨率平均提高了13％-20％。当在GPU上运行时，GNN能够以几乎是2.7 kHz的中位数ICECUBE触发速率的速率处理ICECUBE事件，这打开了在在线搜索瞬态事件中使用低能量中微子的可能性。